TangiCred × Artists
Fair pay for your work with next generation media.
Introducing the NF-CD: a physical key to an artist's world. It's like a CD with a modern twist, for the smartphone generation. Fans collect NF-CDs and tap them with their phone to see the latest from the artists they love: music, photos, videos and updates. Your music and our tech combine to make a deeper fan experience.
A fan-funded drop. You keep ownership of your masters, your catalogue and your music, and your fan relationships stay yours.
Case study. Charlotte Clarke's first NF-CD drop: 20 numbered units, sold out in under four hours, to fans in five countries across two continents (UK, US, France, Germany, Switzerland), no marketing spend beyond a single social post. Launched 1 June 2026, at £19.95. See how her fans reacted: instagram.com/p/DZA5JXNiMrs
What we make
TangiCred makes the NF-CD: a physical, NFC-powered card you sell to your fans. They tap it with their phone and it opens your world: your music, photos, videos and updates. No app, no account, no password, no wallet, and nothing to do with crypto or NFTs.
It's a physical collectable key that unlocks an artist-curated world. Access follows possession: whoever holds the card holds the keys, and if a fan passes it on, access goes with it.
Each batch can be custom laser engraved to your needs. We cut every edition to its own artwork: your name, your marks, numbered in the run, laser-burned into the bamboo itself. It's tonal, not printed, so there's nothing to peel or fade, and the bamboo face is perfect for signing. Send us what you'd put on a sleeve and we'll design the card around it.
What your fan does
The whole thing, from their side, is one gesture:
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Slides the card out of the sleeve.
Numbered, so they know which one of the run they're holding.
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Holds it against the back of their phone.
Nothing to download, nothing to scan, no code to type. The phone already knows how.
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Your world opens.
A link appears and their browser goes straight in. No app, no account, no password to forget. From tap to your music takes about a second.
What a tap opens
The card is the key, and your world is the room behind it. What goes in is yours to decide, and it's more than a folder of files:
Music
Full tracks with your artwork and words around them, in a player built for listening rather than skipping.
Galleries
Photographs full-bleed and cinematic: the frames that never fit a grid.
Video and reels
Films, clips, the studio floor, the soundcheck, all playing inside the same world.
Pre-listen
Time-limited early access to unreleased music, for cardholders only. The tap is the ticket.
Collections
The edition as a set: a fan can see what they hold, and what's still out there.
You run it from your phone: the TangiCred Studio
The Studio lives in an ordinary browser at studio.tangicred.com, phone or laptop. Drag in a folder of tracks, photos and video and it takes it from there; arrange your world; watch the pre-sale land live as orders arrive. It's how Charlotte has run her world since 1 June.
The information pack walks it end to end, step by step, so you can see the whole job before you commit to anything.
The plan and what we each stand to gain:
Fans pre-order (Charlotte's edition was priced at £19.95); after VAT, the card fee and manufacturing, we split the profit 50/50. At £0.002 to £0.004 per stream, your half of one card is worth more than a thousand streams; a sold-out run, tens of thousands. Fair pay, from fans who want to own something real.
Bigger runs, better margins
total profit per run if it sells out; green is your share
The pre-orders pay for the run, so neither of us puts money in up front. Bigger runs cost less to make per card, so your half grows as the run grows.
Your share after VAT, card fees and manufacturing, split 50/50; indicative, and assuming the run sells out. Run totals are calculated before rounding. The information pack breaks each run down penny by penny.
Request an information pack with a penny-by-penny breakdown
The timeframe we propose.
Pre-sale
2 weeks
Manufacture
3 weeks
Fulfilment
1 week
The drop
cards land
What each of us brings
We handle
- Manufacturing, made to the pre-order count, so you're never left holding unsold stock.
- Your world: the hosted space the card opens. You decide what lives behind it.
- The store, payments and VAT. TangiCred is the seller of record.
- Shipping to your fans, wherever they are, and fan support after.
You bring
- Your music, video and photos: whatever you want the card to open.
- Your artwork, and the idea for the edition.
- Your fans. The pre-sale opens when you tell them.
I'm Rudie Barnes. Before I started TangiCred I was a sound engineer at the BBC. I've spent my career around artists and their music, and I built the numbers you just read to be the whole story: no hidden fee, no rights grab, and exit terms you agree with us.
Rudie Barnes, founder
Want the full picture? Get the information pack.
The complete breakdown: the numbers penny by penny, how the Studio works, and exactly what we'd agree, sent straight to your inbox. No upfront cost, you keep your rights, and you get paid properly for the fans you already have.
We use your email only to send the pack and follow up about the 50/50 profit share. No list, no sharing. We keep it until you ask us to delete it; write to hello@tangicred.com any time.
Prefer to talk first? Book a video call, or email hello@tangicred.com.